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Today's Poll!Will state workforce get leaner?
Number of state workers at 15-year low; officials uncertain if more cuts are needed
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Missouri government’s workforce is the smallest it’s been in 15 years. Within two months, we’ll know of it’s going to get smaller.
“We do not know yet,” state Budget Director Linda Luebbering said last week. “We will, obviously, continue to see if there are additional efficiencies, even if we didn’t have a budget challenge — which we will.”
Luebbering and her staff now are reviewing departments’ and agencies’ requests for the 2013-14 budget, and eventually will craft the proposal Gov. Jay Nixon will make in his State of the State address in January and that lawmakers then will write next spring.
Since July 1, 2001 — the start of the first full business year of then-Gov. Bob Holden’s administration — state government has lost the equivalent of ....
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JCsleeper 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Maybe the salary study committee should take into consideration the the increased workload on many employees as a result of the staff reductions. That would probably result in another multi-year legislative commission assessment.
nozepicker 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Someone should go to the admin building at Rolla/Vichy airport and see all the clowns with their state cars loafing there all day on state time. I brought this up to my MoDOT supervisor and he said it has been going on for years but if I want to keep my job, keep my mouth shut. But I am letting my fingers do my talking.
spelchek 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Moving "Forward".
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